Using a virtual-phase, thermoelectrically cooled CCD, a relatively inexpensive but very sensitive slow-scan camera has been built. The primary purpose is for field acquisition and guiding with the ...

Using new charge coupled device (CCD) instrumentation, Case Western Reserve University astronomers can now view the night sky wider and deeper than before.

The world's largest astronomical camera has been installed on Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Oschin Telescope in California. This telescope has been working to improve our understanding of the ...

The night sky of Aspen is a wonderland for stargazers, dark and transparent enough for the naked eye to discern ...

We describe the CCD camera developed and built for the echelle spectrograph, attached to the 91-cm telescope at Catania Astrophysical Observatory.

A flip mirror on my CCD camera is parfocal to a CCD chip and attaches to both an observing eyepiece and a Nikon telextender that doubles the focal length to 90 inches at f/25.

A giant CCD sensor, in fact the largest ever deployed on a telescope, has captured its first images. The sensor, which is mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, ...

After nearly a decade, he put his latest camera on the 40-inch telescope at Mt. Palomar Observatory and was able to measure the distribution of the faint blue galaxies.

Broadcast Technology No. 28 Autumn 2006 FEATURE 300,000-pixel Ultrahigh-speed High-sensitivity CCD and a Single-chip Color Camera Mounting This CCD Hiroshi OHTAKE, Tetsuya HAYASHIDA, Kazuya ...